1. Alex Drake - Ashes To Ashes
The spinoff of the popular Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes followed the journey of Alex Drake, a policewoman who is shot in 2008 and wake up in 1981. Drake spends her time on the show attempting to figure out what has happened to her and how she is going to return home. As well as attempting to learn what exactly happened to Life on Mars Protagonist Sam Tyler, a case she was assigned too before her shooting. Throughout the shows run Drake is repeatedly frustrated by the mystery surrounding the true nature of Gene Hunt and her apparent time travel. All she wanted to do was go home and in the end she couldnt. A lot of people would probably argue that Sam Tyler is the character that belongs on this list and if this was a feature about impact and notability, they would be correct. However it isnt, this list is about tragic endings and in that department Drake wins hands down. The Life on Mars ending is one of the landmark events in television that everyone was talking about, and no one has forgotten it, but it wasnt tragic. Sam got what he wanted, he may have died but he died happy. For Drake it was different, she had more in life than Sam, she had something to return to, she had a daughter. Unlike Sam Tyler, Alex Drake wasnt satisfied with her life being over; she had responsibilities, a child that needed her. To learn that her time had ended and that she had to move on was the complete opposite of the wistful ambiguity of Life on Marss ending, this was a tragedy. As she takes that final walk towards The Railway Arms- it is clear that in death she has made a difference- Drake makes it possible for the Genes team to move on, but she herself must also leave. She didnt get the second chance that Sam threw away; she never got to see her daughter again. Everyone in this franchise suffered an untimely death, but on one had more of a reason to live than Alex Drake.